New Slackware Release Soon

Final release candidate for 15.0 dropped on 12 Jan and it looks like a full 15.0 release should be incoming soon.

This is not a drill.

Wed Jan 12 22:04:33 UTC 2022 Good hello, and welcome to the third and final release candidate for Slackware 15.0. We're 99% frozen at this point and are mostly looking for regression or other bug reports that might be able to be addressed before this goes stable. Of course, the management here reserves the right to make exceptions... that 5.15.15 kernel version has a nice ring to it. If your requests didn't make it into this iteration, perhaps we will revisit them for the next -current cycle. Some were just a little too late but will more than likely be needed next time (I'm looking at Didier's grubconfig), while others are just out of scope for the main tree where I like to abide by YAGNI as much as possible. Anyway, let's get some testing done and we'll be there soon. Enjoy! :-)

It’s happening!

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Tue Feb 1 05:35:21 UTC 2022
Hey, my shiny brass lamp is almost out of fuel!
a/rpm2tgz-1.2.2-i586-6.txz: Rebuilt.
       Don't use --no-absolute-filenames, because inexplicably it also strips the
       leading '/' from symlink targets, generally creating a broken symlink.
       The problem we were attempting to fix is far less common than symlinks to
       absolute filenames, so we'll revert this for further consideration.
       Thanks to pghvlaans.
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Tue Feb 1 04:37:04 UTC 2022
The sepulchral voice intones, "The cave is now closed."

Only thing after this is a security fix. Holy fuck, it’s happening.

REJOICE, QUIT YOUR JOB, SLACK OFF, AND PRAISE “BOB”

Wed Feb 2 22:22:22 UTC 2022
Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than
we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish. Hopefully
we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that we'll be able
to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter development cycle.
Certainly the development infrastructure has been streamlined here and things
should be easier moving forward. My thanks to the rest of the Slackware team,
all the upstream developers who have given us such great building materials,
the folks on LinuxQuestions.org and elsewhere for all the help with testing,
great suggestions, and countless bug fixes, and to everyone who helped
support this project so that the release could finally see the light of day.
I couldn't have done any of this without your help, and I'm grateful to all
of you. Thanks!

For more information, check out the RELEASE_NOTES, CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT,
and ANNOUNCE.15.0.

Have fun! :-)

At 22:22:22 UTC on 02/02/2022. It is perfect.